Pearl Harbor Historic Sites

The Pearl Harbor Visitor Center is an open-air campus on the edge of the harbor, recognizable by its layout of buildings that catch the ocean trade winds and its proximity to the water's edge where the USS Arizona anchor sits. Managed by…

The Pacific Fleet Submarine Museum is marked by the presence of the U.S.S. Bowfin, a Balao-class submarine moored on the shores of Pearl Harbor. This vessel, famously nicknamed the Pearl Harbor Avenger, was launched on December seventh,…

The USS Arizona Memorial is a white concrete structure that stretches one hundred eighty-four feet across the harbor, sagging in the center while rising at both ends. It floats above the sunken hull of the battleship USS Arizona without…

The USS Oklahoma Memorial is identified by four hundred twenty-nine individual white marble columns arranged in a V-shape on Ford Island. Dedicated on December seventh, two thousand seven, this site honors the sailors and Marines who lost…

The USS Missouri, known as the Mighty Mo, is an Iowa-class battleship recognizable by her massive steel hull and nine sixteen-inch guns housed in three rotating turrets. Commissioned in June nineteen forty-four, she was the final…

The Ford Island Control Tower rises one hundred sixty-eight feet above the center of Pearl Harbor, a structure distinguished by its height and its proximity to the harbor’s historic battleship rows. Officially known as Building S84, this…

The Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum occupies two hangars, numbered thirty-seven and seventy-nine, on Ford Island. These buildings are recognizable by the visible scars of the December seventh, nineteen forty-one, attack, including bullet…